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NavIC set to be commercialised by Antrix
Why is it in the news ?
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its older commercial arm Antrix Corporation Ltd. are poised to commercialise India’s regional navigation satellite system, NavIC.
- Antrix recently floating two separate tenders to identify industries that can develop dedicated NavIC-based hardware and systems.
More in the news
- NavIC (Navigation in Indian Constellation):
(1) NavIC is the Indian system of eight satellites.
(2) It is aimed at telling business and individual users where they are, or how their products and services are moving.
(3) The indigenous positioning or location based service (LBS) works just like the established and popular U.S. Global Positioning System or GPS.
(4) It work within a 1,500-km radius over the sub-continent.
- Recent Developments:
(1) In mid-October, ISRO announced that Qualcomm Technologies Inc., had developed and tested NavIC-friendly chipsets across its user bases and that it would add NavIC to them.
(2) The Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is a leading producer of semiconductor chips.
(3) NavIC has also got he certification of the Indian system by the 3GPP.
(4) 3GPP is the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and a global body for coordinating mobile telephony standards.
Source
The Hindu.